The Miss Rodeo Nebraska Association formally announced the contestants for Miss Rodeo Nebraska 2025 and Miss Teen Rodeo Nebraska 2024 via their Facebook page over the weekend. The following young women will compete for the two titles during the pageant, held June 9-12 in conjunction with NEBRASKAland Days and the…
Junior Jackson Brockett has been named the Big Ten’s Pitcher of the Week and earned Pitcher of the Week recognition on the national level by D1Baseball and Perfect Game on Monday afternoon. Brockett tossed the sixth individual no-hitter in program history, and the first nine-inning no-hitter since 1954 in Nebraska’s…
Sydney Gray was named the final Big Ten Player of the Week of the 2024 season on Monday. Gray was honored for the third time this season, as she tied for the most player-of-the-week awards in a season in Big Ten history. Gray is just the eighth player in Big…
Nebraska is the Beef State, and when your birthday falls during Beef Month, you celebrate accordingly. One-year-old Waitley is the son of Tori and Casey Land of Fullerton. His parents said he loves animals and being outdoors. He also enjoys being with his older sister, Laynie. Instead of cake or…
A Hastings couple was arraigned in Dawson County Court Monday afternoon, each on a charge of Shoplifting with a value between $500 and $1,500. The case stems from a Lexington Police Department investigation of a shoplifting at the Lexington Walmart store that occurred on the evening of April 14, 2024.…
Native Nebraska pasture plants such as Tall, Platte (prairie), Flodman, Yellowspine, and Wavyleaf (gray) Thistles can be beneficial for butterflies and provide seeds for songbirds. However, many ‘nonnative’ Thistle species such as Musk, Canada, Plumeless, Bull and Scotch are ‘Noxious Weeds’ that must be controlled depending on your Nebraska county.…
Construction of the National Center for Resilient and Regenerative Precision Agriculture at Nebraska Innovation Campus launched with a ceremonial turning of dirt on May 6. The state-of-the-art research center is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Nebraska Innovation Campus. The center will…
University of Nebraska alumnus Paul Engler, who died May 3 at age 94, believed the secret to successful entrepreneurship was to have “a fire in the belly” to find a better way of doing things. He credited that mindset for his accomplishments in the cattle industry and wanted to find…
Lincon, Neb. -- 25-year-old Leopoldo Ramirez of Lexington was sentenced Thursday in Lincoln for conspiring to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of meth and fentanyl. Ramirez will serve 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Between at least June 2021…
Public lands grazers should make plans now to attend the Grazing Public Lands: Guidance and Resources in a Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak webinar set for May 13 at 2 p.m. eastern time. Managing livestock grazing public lands in an FMD outbreak poses unique challenges for sheep and cattle ranchers. An effective…
